July 12, 2024

Pastor’s Thoughts – 07-14-2024

“Thoughts of the glory of Christ are too high and too hard for us. We cannot delight in them for very long without becoming weary and turning away from them. We are unspiritual, our thoughts and desires being taken up with other things. If we would stir ourselves to believe “the things the angels desire to look into”, our spiritual understanding and strength would increase daily. We would then show more of the glory of Christ by the way we live and death itself would be welcome to us” John Owen If you watched the Olympic Trials on network television […]
July 19, 2024

Pastor’s Thoughts – 07-21-2024

“The Second Coming of Jesus Christ is a cardinal doctrine of the Christian faith. It is not minor, it is not unimportant, it is not secondary or tertiary, it is critical. It is a substantial reality in our faith. In fact, in some ways the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is the most important of events because it’s the end of the story, because the Second Coming consummates everything, everything.” John MacArthur Fear is both an emotion and a sense that occurs in us which can cause change in our thinking and behavior. Fear is peculiar in that it is […]
July 27, 2024

Pastor’s Thoughts – 07-28-2024

“Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments.” John Calvin The definition of love is described as attachment to, regard for, or affection for another seen in actions for their benefit. God’s description of love is shown in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. His love is known because of what He was willing to do on behalf of those who were […]
August 1, 2024

Pastor’s Thoughts – 08-04-2024

“The Lord reigns – not Satan, not man, not God and man, not good luck, not bad luck, not random events, not chance occurrences, not the alignment of the stars, not accidents, not blind fate, not good or bad karma – only God, and God alone” Steve Lawson I have noticed that the reality of faith alone as one of the essential Sola’s revised from the Reformation is often misunderstood.  When we say faith alone, the intention is that faith is the only channel God has provided for mankind to be redeemed. For the Old Testament saints it was a […]